Art
Floral Arrangements Enter the Art Gallery in Los Angeles
As Canary Test’s owners interacted with their green-thumbed neighbors, they observed that the artistry behind floral arrangement was not unlike sculpture.
Reviews
Film
How a Billionaire Bought an Ecosystem
Taming the Garden is a meditation on constancy, change brought about by the will and wealth of one person, and complex ecosystems.
Art
The Illicit Allure of Art Forgery
An anarchic desire to undermine the art world’s institutions lends art forgers a roguish, rebellious identity that is both compelling and unsavory.
Art
Looking Anew at Mina Loy, From Paris to the Bowery
Loy’s work as an artist and writer was as groundbreaking as it was evanescent, and a new exhibition helps bring it back into view.
Art
What if Radical Femmes Ruled the Heavens?
In Wynnie Mynerva’s The Original Riot, Eve and Lilith make a pact using Eve’s right rib, vowing to create a new world absent of patriarchal subjugation.
Art
The Stuff of a Sustainable Future
Marc-Anthony Polizzi’s installations are regional portraits commenting on contemporary consumer culture’s emphasis on the disposable.
Art
What Did the Lion Tell the Tiger?
While Wu Junyong is deeply connected to his love of Chinese myths, folktales, and language, his subjects underscore his break with the past.
Art
A Mother and Daughter Find Each Other in Art
Mary Ann Unger worked against the idea of the solitary (male) genius, creating a model of life and work that empowers artists like her daughter, Eve Biddle.
Art
Warm Institutional Embrace of Self-Taught Artists
There are no “outsiders” in this exhibition at the Cincinnati Art Museum.
Books
Anne Truitt's Journals Strike a Proustian Note
Truitt was that rare artist whose words are regarded as highly as her works.
Art
Keith Haring Saw the Future in His Art
To sit with Haring’s expansive artworks is to travel back in time and understand that the world of the 1980s is not so far from today’s.
Art
David L. Johnson's Critique of NYC Community Gardens
Johnson’s own garden raises questions about restricted access to public spaces.